Getting around 130fps avg frames, sometime dipping down into the 80’s, when playing CS2. Did a recent system upgrade and presumed performance would be better than this for the build?

Gear:

  • Ryzen 7 5700x 3.4ghz
  • 6750XT 12gb ddr6
  • 16gb 3600mhz ddr4
  • m.2 SSD
  • 144hz , 1440 screen with freesync
  • Running Mint latest version

Have tried in-game settings at lowest, still not managing to get a stable FPS above 144. Mucking with settings doesn’t seem to change performance much. Have set game to run with ‘-vulkan’ which helped reduce some stuttering issues, but not much performance gain.

I also only get <100fps with other games like BG3. Figured this kit would be able to handle modern games a bit better. Any ideas what’s going on?

EDIT: For future reference, the following changes were made and am now getting ~200fps

  • Enabled asus EZ Tune in BIOS (rather than manually muck with each setting)
  • Updated gpu drivers via ‘amdgpu -install’
  • Enable gamemode
  • vividspecter@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    There are some bugs with recent kernels and 6XXX cards. Try kernel 6.5.X and also look at the workarounds here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1500

    In addition, make sure “Above 4G decoding” is enabled in BIOS/UEFI so you get resize rebar support.

    Beyond that, make sure you’re using mesa (and not amdvlk) and that’s it a version from this year at least (23.X.X)

    • Fluid@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Resize Rebar was something that was previously switched off I discovered. Turning this on via the Asus EZ Tuner made a great difference. Found im still on a Mesa 22.x driver for some reason, despite running latest driver update, and my kernal is showing 5.15.x, despite having all OS updates installed… will need to investigate, perhaps a Mint issue. Thanks!

      • vividspecter@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        5.15.X is the previous LTS kernel. Probably the default when you installed it. I don’t use Mint but you should be able to use 6.1.X at the least (the current LTS kernel).

  • Peter1986C@lemmings.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Linux Mint does not use very recent versions of the gfx drivers for that card (IIRC from last time I checked). My RX6600 therefore had some performance hit when I ran Mint (compared to Windows or other Linux distros). Arguably one could bump the installed versions of xserver-xorg-drivers-amdgpu and mesa-vulkan-drivers to more recent versions. You could have a look into the repo with Synaptic Package Manager and see whether there is a more recent version of the relevant stuff available (perhaps you need to allow for “testing” software source.

    • Fluid@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Thanks. Following some snooping around the amd site, I’ve run ’amdgpu -install’ and a few additional drivers were installed. Along with some bios power changes I made (enabling asus EZ tune), I am getting above 150 on average now, so suspect this may have had some improvement.

  • Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I can provide nothing specifically to the topic at hand, but a great resource is ProtonDB (here the CS2 specific page). You can see which launch options, workarounds, etc work on which distro, GPU, …

    If you get it working, consider posting there, so others can benefit from your knowledge 😀

    • Fluid@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for sharing, good point, I hadn’t looked there yet but seems like a common issue for some people

  • moody@lemmings.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Lots of people are reporting poor performance in CS2 on Linux. It’s probably not a problem with your system, and more a problem with CS2.

  • squarm@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Yeah i get 250fps in it on Windows and 90-120 on Linux. When the game launched smoke grenades didn’t even work so i think its safe to say it was untested. Hopefully improvements soon.

    • Fluid@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      After changes Ive made mentioned elsewhere, im getting a stable 200+ now, maybe give them a go also? Although, I do have a weird glitch where things have a green sheen to them when running for some reason, but seems like a CS2 only issue at this stage, might be patched out later.

  • Keegen@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    You’re using an RDNA2 card so it’s possible your low FPS is caused by this issue. I would try this fix that was mentioned in the comments under that issue to see if your performance improves.

  • Ambiance2920@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The Linux version of the game has barely been tested. The frame times are all over the place. Give it a few weeks and the performance should increase through updates, the issue isn’t on your end

  • ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    CS2 runs like garbage. -vulkan is most likely a placebo as Source 2 doesn’t offer an OpenGL renderer, so it only runs on Vulkan.